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[hiac]

Hi,

I am hiac, which is a sort of abbreviation of my name. I work as an IT worker. I live in Poland.

There are leftist in Poland, but there are scattered and not doing well. I do not have contact with them which shows their major problem - no communication outside their pond.

I have no specific genre for my political ideas. I think, that for now for me is not important whether I am trotskyist or third world maoist. Important for me, I can write about leftist ideas and define myself through writing. I think, thanks to my philosophical education, I could be interesting.

About my way to become a leftist, it is Poland, we are after 25 years of neoliberalism, so it is very tough here. I think that we should cooperate, there is polish tradition of cooperation, see Abramowski as an example. So I started reading about left. It occurs to me, that I am not brightest, but with other we can change world to be better place for everyone, so Revleft is another step towards self-emancipation.

See you in Forum,
hiac.

[Q]

Welcome :)

If you have political questions, you can ask them in the Learning forum. That's why it's there after all!

If you have questions about your account, don't hesitate to send me a PM or ask here.

[jullia]

Hi and welcome :).

Nice to see some poland comrad here.

[Hit The North]

Hi and welcome. I hope that in your debates on the forum we can convince you that it is indeed important as to whether you are a Trotskyist of Third World Maoist :)

[Sewer Socialist]

Welcome. I hope we don't make you feel unintelligent ourselves!

Has there ever been a strong left in Poland?

[hiac]

It is complicated.

Poland was communist as a part of Soviet Empire, so after 1989 part of Polish was happy with capitalism in 90s, no one asked why they shut down all industry, catholic church helped out to decrease impact of unemployment rate and so on. Now after 25 years they say (builders of 90s capitalistic republic) that they could choose from 4 or 5 strategies of transition, and they chose hardest one.

Also there were real rightist offensive in 90s and 10s, so now Poland is very rightist, conservative with hint of fascism. Only a few of us, I think 500 per country, ask about this, are in opposition against this change.

In my opinion, there is no movement, no great leaders or great members, so I think there is a lot to educate, to organize, and agitate.

[Sewer Socialist]

That's quite a shame. Is there active involvement from the Polish state or groups of Polish people in the Ukraine / Novorossiya?